Example sentences of "always [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 2 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 3 | It always behaved for Brian . |
| 4 | ‘ He always changed for the evening meal regardless of whether anyone was coming or not ’ . |
| 5 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 6 | Even in the suburbs of Auckland , New Zealand 's largest city , there are areas of native bush where it is possible to work undisturbed from dawn until dusk , finding a peace of mind and in turn concentration which I always yearned for in Suffolk . |
| 7 | She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite . |
| 8 | He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag . |
| 9 | Caine would choose from a variety of eateries , while Poitier always plumped for Peter Langan 's elegantly seductive Odin 's , just off Marylebone High Street . |
| 10 | Oh yes , I love it , I mean , as a boy I used to support West Ham but I am now firmly behind Oxford United , and I want them to beat West Ham , because as a boy they always lost for me , West Ham . |
| 11 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 12 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 13 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 14 | I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things . |
| 15 | She always fell for things like that ; she was easy to manage . |
| 16 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 17 | Yvonne could n't find the fish brooch that she always wore for funerals . |
| 18 | Mildred changed from her ordinary school uniform to the best robes which the girls always wore for special occasions . |
| 19 | He always went for a type — dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorphs — and when chatting up his quarry , his voice would change from baritone to bass baritone without realising . |
| 20 | He always went for a walk about this hour . |
| 21 | I always voted for the person I thought less crooked because I did n't , and do n't think , there is much difference between the parties . |
| 22 | It was her smile that always did for him . |
| 23 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |
| 24 | She always paused for rather too long before answering a question or responding to a remark for she feared that if she answered hastily she would say something unseemly . |
| 25 | Blanche listened patiently , like the elder sister Dexter had never had but always wished for . |
| 26 | Babs was telling the Lost Boys a story of how mothers always waited for their children to return : |
| 27 | Every night that Madame stepped up onto the stage in her dress , Boy would be watching her ; he always stayed for that . |